Why not GNU's Findutils?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> I have seen that Fedora Core uses Red Hat's implementation of 'locate'
> and 'updatedb', while sticking to GNU's implementation of 'find'. Why
> is it so? Is there any reason for not using GNU's implementation of
> 'locate' and 'updatedb' as well, since they alongwith 'find' are part
> of GNU Findutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils)?

I guess you are talking about using mlocate by default instead of 
slocate from Fedora Core 5.

See http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/

Also

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg00758.html

Rahul